D&D General How do you do smart chaotic evil?

[CreamCloud0]

Slightly off topic, but I simply cannot play Evil characters. I cannot even play Neutral. And not even just in TTRPGs, but also in solo play video games. I do not understand the desire to do so.

tangentially, it's amazing how 'evil' it can turn out your groups actions have been when you remove the 'we're the hero protagonists' goggles.

 

[EzekielRaiden]

Very little is 100% and outside of something like a demon and I'm not saying it should be, but "smart" play wouldn't have a PC be ruled by whim or emotion even as high 25% of the time. And if your CE PC is avoiding being CE 75%+ of the time, he isn't CE. He's LE or NE with a small streak of C somewhere in there.

And I still reject the idea that CE has to be bound to such a behavior type that means it is necessarily the Inherently Stupid Alignment.

 

[bsss]

And I still reject the idea that CE has to be bound to such a behavior type that means it is necessarily the Inherently Stupid Alignment.

To be fair to the shallow interpretation, I think it assumes all Chaotic characters would be Inherently Stupid, so it's not just CE.